Downloads

Guide

Land Environments of New Zealand Technical Guide 3.02MB

Brochures & Posters

LENZ Poster 1-panel colour poster about LENZ 211KB
LENZ Brochure 4-page A4 colour brochure about LENZ 873KB

Reports

Title	Author	Year	File size
Climate Surfaces for New Zealand (Revised)	J. Leathwick, G. Wilson, & T. Stephens	2002	2MB
Spatial Prediction of the Potential Range of Three Threatened Plant Species in the Waikato Region⁽¹⁾	D. Rutledge, M. Merritt, & B. Burns	2004	10MB
National biodiversity status: methods and summary results ⁽²⁾	Rutledge, D., Price, R., Heke, H. & Ausseil, A.	2004	3.3MB
New Zealand's indigenous cover: recent changes and biodiversity protection needs ⁽³⁾	Walker, S., Price R., & Rutledge, D.	2005	2.6MB

⁽¹⁾ Report made available courtesy of Environment Waikato and the Department of Conservation
⁽²⁾ Report made available courtesy of Ministry for the Environment, the Department of Conservation, and Local Government New Zealand,
⁽³⁾ Report made available courtesy of the Department of Conservation and Ministry for the Environment

Tools

LENZ Distance v0.5 (34KB ArcView 3.x .avx file)
An ArcView extension that 1) calculates the environmental distance (Gower metric) used in the LENZ classification from a selected point to all other points in a view and 2) creates a new grid of the environmental distance values.
Copy the .avx file to your ...\arcview\ext32 directory. LENZ Distance will then be available via the Extensions dialog box that is accessed through the File menu in ArcView

Threatened Environment Classification
The Threatened Environment Classification is a source of broad (i.e. national) scale background information: specifically, how much native (indigenous) vegetation remains within land environments; its legal protection status; and how past vegetation loss and legal natural heritage protection are distributed across New Zealand’s landscape.

The Threatened Environment Classification is a combination of three national databases: Land Environments New Zealand (LENZ), classes of the 4th Land Cover Database (LCDB4, based on 2012 satellite imagery) and the protected areas network (version 2012, reflecting areas legally protected for the purpose of natural heritage protection). The classification combines this information into a simple and practical GIS tool. ‘Threatened environments’ (categories 1 to 5) are those in which much indigenous vegetation has been cleared and/or only a small proportion of what remains is legally protected.